Becky Lynch looks back on WrestleMania 35.
Becky Lynch became the first woman to win the main event of WrestleMania 35, defeating Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair in a triple threat match to win the WWE Raw and SmackDown Women's Championships.
The finish saw Becky pin Rousey, but Rousey seemingly get her shoulder off the mat before three. Despite Rousey getting the shoulder up, the pinfall was counted.
"I was in the moment. I couldn't see it. The discourse afterwards, and also the sound of the audience made it seem like something had gone wrong. Obviously, I wasn't aware. I don't know if that was intentional or accidental. I could see the motivation for it being intentional. 'This will be my out to get a second match' in the long game or it just being accidental," Lynch told Chris Van Vliet on Insight.
Asked if that was supposed to be the finish, Lynch stated, "With a pinfall. Not with a shoulder up, but with a pinfall."
In her booked "The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl," Lynch wrote that the original plan called for Rousey to tap out, but Rousey did not want to tap.
Lynch provided further insight to the decision by saying, "That was the creative laid out. She had, her driver had taken her to the wrong spot, so she showed up like an hour...we had been talking through stuff. TJ Wilson, our producer, an amazing producer, he was like, 'Maybe you have Ronda in armbar, she looks like she's about to tap out,' Ronda comes and we tell her the creative, 'You're almost about to tap out.' 'My mom wouldn't look me in the eye or talk to me again if I looked like I was about to tap out.' 'Alright, well, she's probably not going to tap out on the finish then.' She never tapped out in her career. Understood it, respected it, and moved on quickly. I was going to win, I was going to win two titles in the main event of WrestleMania. It was not a big deal whether she tapped out or not. I was winning and she was doing the honors."
Rousey and Lynch never had a singles match despite teases during Rousey's two runs with WWE.
While making the media rounds ahead of WrestleMania XL to promote her book, Lynch gave further comments regarding Rousey's run with the company. You can find her full comments by clicking here.
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